page_title: Guatemalans
section_title: Diaspora
hierarchical_section_title: Guatemalans / Demographics / Diaspora
caption_attribution_description: English: Indigenous Mayan Women at Chichicastenango Market
context_page_description: Guatemalans are people connected to the country of Guatemala. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Guatemalans, several of these connections exist.
  Guatemala is a multicultural society, and is home to people from many different ethnicities and religions. Therefore, many Guatemalans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Guatemala. The overwhelming majority of Guatemalans are the product of varying degrees of admixture between European ethnic groups and the indigenous peoples of the Americas, known as Amerindians. Guatemalans are also colloquially nicknamed Chapines in otherSpanish-speaking countries of Hispanic America.
context_section_description: The Civil War forced many Guatemalans to start lives outside of their country. The majority of the Guatemalan diaspora is located in the United States of America, with estimates ranging from 480,665 to 1,489,426. The difficulty in getting accurate counts for Guatemalans abroad is because many of them are refugee claimants awaiting determination of their status. Emigration to the United States of America has led to the growth of Guatemalan communities in California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Rhode Island and elsewhere since the 1970s.
  Below are estimates for certain countries:
caption: Indigenous Mayan Women at Chichicastenango Market
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